Results for Educators

Looking to dive deeper into webinar marketing? Want to learn new ways to attract and engage with your K-12 audience? Returning to our program is Lisa Greathouse with SimpleK12. In a previous show on STS Radio titled "Three Secrets of K-12 Marketing" Lisa shared her great ideas for using webinars to reach educators and generate high quality sales leads - key points from her popular webinar with the same title. Since our last interview, Lisa and her team have been experimenting with some…

Graphite is a free service designed to help pre K-12 educators discover, use, and share the best apps, games, websites, and digital curricula for their students by providing unbiased, rigorous ratings and practical insights from a great community of educators.

How does the mind work—and especially how does it learn? Teachers’ instructional decisions are based on a mix of theories learned in teacher education, trial and error, craft knowledge, and gut instinct. Such knowledge often serves us well, but is there anything sturdier to rely on? Cognitive science is an interdisciplinary field of researchers from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, computer science, and anthropology who seek to…

Working Together as a Team Gulf Coast Educators Federal Credit Union has partnered with SWBC Investment Services, LLC to offer complete financial services to our members. Through Gulf Coast Educators Investment Center, located at Gulf Coast Educators Federal Credit Union, members have a team committed to helping them achieve long-term financial success. With today’s economic challenges and diverse investment choices, you need a trusted team who…

5 Reasons Why It’s Important for Educators to Join Professional Organizations One thing many educators do not take full advantage of is professional organizations. Joining professional organizations is not only important from a career development perspective, but they also provide excellent opportunities to network and meet new people. A problem many teachers and educators share is the inability to find the right professional organizations. This post…

The Future Skills Institutes are designed to empower educators to build classrooms of the future. This action-packed, hands-on professional development experience will provide educators with immediately applicable methods and tools that can be use in the classroom or school to build creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking skills in students. Participants will meet other innovative educators and walk away with a unit plan for their classroom…

This session will explore how educators can use social media in the classroom. We’ll discuss why it’s important and how teachers can ensure their students - and themselves - have positive digital images and are well “Googlable” by the time they leave school. You'll also hear from fellow educators as they share their best practices around how they use social media in the classroom. Who should attend: K-12 educators ACT 48 Credit hours will be provided.

Many have wondered how we can better identify children and adolescents with mental health needs. Educators are exposed to a range of behaviors and social interactions among their students. They need to be equipped to recognize and distinguish between a child acting age appropriately and one exhibiting symptoms of something more. Dr. John Walkup, MD, an internationally recognized expert in child and adolescent psychiatry and Director…

An 808 Unconference is a different kind of PD. Topics are attendee-driven. Educators learn from one another via conversations.

This back-to-school season is challenging for all educators, but it can pose specific hardships for those at the beginning of their careers. That’s why NEA has created resources to support new educators at the beginning of the school year and beyond. Check out the podcast, video, blog posts, webinars, and more—or share them with your…